Re: [Fwd: Re: themes]

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

John Fleck wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 09:53, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>  
>
> > Luis Villa <louie ximian com> writes: 
> >    
> >
> > > P.S. OOOH- you know what we need for 2.0.1? there needs to be a default
> > > 'GNOME-AA' session, just like your regular session but with GDK_USE_XFT
> > > set. George? :)
> > >
> > >      
> > GDK_USE_XFT should not be referred to as "enable AA fonts" - that
> > isn't what it does, it enables the Xft backend. Which allows you to
> > then enable AA fonts, or not. The main point about GDK_USE_XFT is that
> > it moves us onto our new font architecture, and eventually we are
> > dropping the old core X architecture.
> >
> >    
>
> So does this (thanks Malcolm) accurately reflect things:
>
> 	In order to have anti-aliased fonts in 
> 	menus and applications, you will
>      	need to make sure that the environment 
> 	variable GDK_USE_XFT is exported
>      	before running the appropriate applications.
> 	For example, you might put
>      	the following in $HOME/.gnomerc:
>  
#!/bin/sh
GDK_USE_XFT=1
export GDK_USE_XFT
exec gnome-session

(or possibly "exec ssh-agent gnome-session" if you are using SSH with 
agent forwarding).

James.

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